While smashing lead atoms into each other at extremely high speeds in an effort to mimic the state of the universe just after ...

Over its 12-season run, The Big Bang Theory evolved into one of television's great pop-culture crossroads. What began as a ...

A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first predicted by Albert Einstein back in 1915, could have given rise to cosmic ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

For decades, scientists have viewed the Big Bang as the starting point of space and time. But research into cosmic inflation—the lightning-fast expansion that likely occurred before the Big Bang ...